C126 — [5.21 — False Them]
by UntamedSBonus Chap
Thanks for the ko-fi once again 🌟🌟🌟flyingulls🌟🌟🌟
Jiu Shu intuited that something not so good had happened upstairs and raised his steps to go up, but he was stopped by someone.
“Stop! Don’t go any further!”
A group of heavily armed rebels appeared around the corner of the corridor to the upper floor.
Each of them wore helmets that covered their faces, and the gu-ns in their hands were aimed at the program team that was about to go up.
[Resistance Army! How did they appear here?]
[Call the police! Why don’t you call the police?]
[What’s wrong with this crew? How did they attract the resistance during the program?]
Like the program director had planned, the broadcast room exploded.
But before the program director could be happy, he realized that the plan wasn’t quite what he expected.
The Resistance didn’t follow the plan of threatening to hurt Jiu Shu and taking off his mask after scaring the snot out of him.
Instead, they threatened them all.
“Anyone who moves forward will be k-illed!”
The show’s director was confused and at first thought the Resistance actor had misremembered his lines.
It wasn’t until the sound of gu-nshots rang out and a starlet who had followed the script and was full of disdain and wanted to force her way forward fell into a pool of blo-od.
Only then did he realize that the person he had arranged had long since disappeared, and what had now appeared was the real resistance.
“Ahhhhhh-!!!”
The crowd of the program crew screamed; only Lian Qi and Jiu Shu seemed unusually calm.
For Lian Qi, it was because she had seen the gestures the Resistance Army had made to her and knew that they wouldn’t hurt her.
Jiu Shu, on the other hand, was observing something thoughtfully.
These few resistance soldiers had bloo-d on their bodies.
The bloo-d that dripped down from upstairs just now was related to them.
But it was uncertain if it was related to Zero Three.
If he was to go up and check, he would have to settle these few resistance soldiers before he could do so.
Just as Jiu Shu was thinking of a countermeasure, the few resistance soldiers suddenly made a move.
They seemed to have received some kind of information and moved with some trepidation.
Jiu Shu vaguely heard orders coming from their helmets, “Above… quickly… support!”
Rumble-!!!
This time there was even more commotion on the upper floors.
The few people from the Resistance couldn’t even be bothered to control the show’s crowd anymore and hurriedly ran upstairs.
Jiu Shu followed without hesitation.
As the bionics were very fast, Jiu Shu’s human physical condition was still a bit unable to keep up with them, and he soon lost them.
In the end, he could only look for clues along the long corridor.
At this time, dripping bloo-d marks also began to appear in the corridor.
It seemed to be dripping down from an unknown floor upstairs.
Not far away from Jiu Shu in the corridor, a fearful bionic man slowly walked down from the upper floors.
He stumbled, but his desperate will to escape could still be seen.
He saw the figure at the other end of the corridor and seemed to recognize Jiu Shu, revealing a look of surprise.
“Jiu Shu…”
The person who came was none other than Seven Two.
He ignored the injuries on his body and wanted to get closer to Jiu Shu.
Because he wanted to tell Jiu Shu the truth.
Zero Three was too terrifying. Jiu Shu had to leave him quickly in order to survive.
“Ahhhh–!”
There were vague screams coming from upstairs, and the rain of blo-od was getting more and more intense.
Seven Two knew that it was the bloo-d of Zero Three and the Resistance.
He looked up in horror and saw a tall figure still resisting above the corridor on the tenth floor.
That was Zero Three.
They clearly wanted to cut Zero Three down on the spot, but Zero Three was so powerful for some reason.
The resistance’s heavy weapons were powerful enough to pierce through the floor, but they were easily dodged by Zero Three, who also pulled a few bionics to block the aftermath of the weapons.
After the battle, almost all of the rebels were crushed into mincemeat by their own heavy fire weapons, and bloo-d pattered and dripped down the railing.
But fortunately, Zero Three wasn’t a god after all; he was also injured, and his blo-od similarly flowed all over the place.
It looked like he wouldn’t survive for long.
With so many more supportive rebels coming just now, Zero Three shouldn’t be able to deal with that many people.
Thinking like this, Seven Two heard cheers from the message channel from the resistance forces that had come to support him.
They were saying, “Dying! Finally dying!”
Zero Three seemed to have finally stopped resisting.
Seven Two saw the figure fall down shakily.
Even a new model with a renewable attribute didn’t have the ability to keep on regenerating indefinitely.
Not to mention that he was already in a weakened state.
Now was the best time for Jiu Shu to leave Zero Three.
Thinking so, Seven Two accelerated the speed at which he approached Jiu Shu.
However, just as Seven Two was about to walk up to Jiu Shu.
On the distant floor, there seemed to be someone weakly looking over.
The pitch-black pupils dyed red by bloo-d reflected Jiu Shu’s figure.
Fresh bloo-d gushed out from the bloo-dy, broken open abdomen, sliding down the smooth floor.
It pattered and dripped.
Zero Three saw Jiu Shu looking over in the direction of the blo-od droplets falling.
Even though he knew that Jiu Shu couldn’t see him, he couldn’t help but cower.
He didn’t dare to let Jiu Shu see his current wretched appearance.
Besides, he had already delayed too much time.
There was no way he could make it home in time to prepare lunch for Jiu Shu.
Zero Three hoped that Jiu Shu wouldn’t be disappointed by this.
Ahem.
Struggling to sit up, Zero Three’s mouth gushed out large streams of bloo-d.
He didn’t feel the pain.
All he could do was bind the bandage on his wrist stained with his own bloo-d with trembling fingertips.
It was a gift from Jiu Shu.
He had already accidentally soiled it and couldn’t lose it again.
Tying up the bandage, Zero Three no longer cared about the Resistance soldiers beside him, who cautiously approached, ready to k-ill him completely.
His eyes fell as he looked downstairs at Jiu Shu.
As a police officer, he had long been prepared that he would be sacrificed on the job.
He just didn’t expect it to come so quickly.
The happiness that was so hard to get ended just like this.
It seemed to be enough for a bionic like him who never had anyone to care about.
He had gained the love of Jiu Shu, so it didn’t seem regrettable to die like this.
But… perhaps it was the nature of bionics to be greedy; Zero Three still couldn’t help but feel unwilling.
He didn’t want to leave Jiu Shu like this.
Zero Three greedily looked at Jiu Shu without blinking, wanting to look at Jiu Shu’s figure forever.
He could tell that Jiu Shu was looking for him.
Opening his lips, his bloo-d-filled throat could no longer make a sound.
Zero Three covered his throat, the unwillingness in his eyes gradually spreading.
He was still unwilling.
Very unwilling.
He didn’t want it to end like this.
At this time, Seven Two had also approached Jiu Shu.
Zero Three looked at Seven Two’s figure that was gradually approaching Jiu Shu; the despair in his eyes finally could no longer be suppressed.
Even if it was after his death, he didn’t want to let Jiu Shu find out that he had deceived him.
But now, everything that he didn’t want Jiu Shu to know would be revealed.
When everything was known, Jiu Shu would show an expression of disgust even when faced with his dead body, right?
Just like how the rest of humanity looked at him.
He had done nothing.
Why?
Couldn’t he ever be happy as a bionic human?
Snap-snap-snap-
Short black hair covered his eyes, and all that could be seen were the tears sliding down his cheeks and the thick resentment in his eyes.
He couldn’t accept this outcome.
He was not willing to do so!
ZiZi–
The not-so-bright emergency lights in the rotten building flickered on and off, and the Resistance members watched the data fluctuations on the locator with horrified expressions.
Adam’s data was spewing rapidly.
But they hadn’t even found where Adam was.
“Is… not good! Quickly go and take out that bionic man’s data chip!”
The captain endured the pain, and his expression changed drastically under his helmet.
He was referring to the mutineer they had just k-illed in the corridor not far away.
This was supposed to be a perfectly normal casual act of ki-lling a mutineer; no one had expected it to become so big and for so many rebels to be k-illed.
Much less that the bionic man might be connected to Adam.
It could only be said that their locator was too crude to be precise to the point, and it was inevitable that something would go wrong now.
In order to avoid further deterioration of the situation, they could only take out the chip of the bionic man that might be Adam and bring it back to the Resistance base.
After the captain finished speaking, he was ready to contact Leader Cory and explain the situation to him.
But who knew that the next second, the lights in the rotten building would completely dim?
The locator fell to the ground, and the data curve on it also went completely black after the screen flashed twice.
The Resistance Forces that were originally still panicked also quieted down in an instant, so quiet that it was almost dead silence.
At this moment, in the resistance base.
The researchers collapsed disheveledly onto their chairs in utter despair.
“It’s over. Adam has woken up!”
Leader Cory also frowned with a grave expression.
The data on the big screen was displaying Adam’s current data, chaotic to the extreme and no longer under their control.
Just a moment ago, Adam’s information tentacles had spread beyond the stronghold.
The center point of the outbreak was the rotten building.
The Resistance’s actions had failed; they hadn’t been able to stop Adam’s awakening, nor had they been able to pacify him.
Even as the leader of the bionic resistance, Cory couldn’t help but show a powerless expression.
But then he remembered that his girlfriend, Lian Qi, was still in the rotten building and reluctantly composed himself to send a message to Lian Qi.
The Resistance’s team was now unreachable.
Lian Qi would be in danger if she continued to stay there.
In the rotten building.
Downstairs, Jiu Shu paused in the face of the sudden darkness.
He heard the footsteps of someone approaching him.
The steps seemed to be a stranger’s.
Jiu Shu raised his eyes and saw a blurry shadow.
But before he could see it clearly, light suddenly returned to the rotten building.
Between the shifting light and shadows, the figure had already disappeared.
Jiu Shu frowned and looked around; there was only a corridor of pure white walls.
There was also the ground that was soaked with blo-od from upstairs.
Jiu Shu lifted his steps and walked towards the direction where the blo-od was spreading, and before he reached the corner, he heard footsteps once again.
This time, the footsteps were familiar.
It was Zero Three.
“Jiu Shu, sorry I’m late.”
The tall man with a handsome face came down the stairs, still with a solemn expression.
His dark eyes looked at Jiu Shu almost greedily, and the gentle look on his pale face seemed no different from usual.
The blo-odstains on his body, however, were silently telling of the grueling battle he had just experienced.
Jiu Shu’s movements gave a start, and only after seeing that there were no wounds on Zero Three’s body that were bleeding did the corners of his taut lips ease a little.
“Does it hurt?” Jiu Shu walked faster to meet Zero Three.
Reaching out his hand, he wanted to touch the torn police uniform on Zero Three’s body, but he was afraid of touching Zero Three and hurting him.
It would be bad if there was a healed wound under the clothes.
“It’s fine; it’s just a superficial wound; it doesn’t matter.”
“Did I not tell you that I’m a police officer? It’s just that I fought with the resistance just now; don’t worry.”
Zero Three explained so, pale fingertips holding Jiu Shu’s hand.
The grip wasn’t tight, but the bottom of his eyes contained deep satisfaction.
He was finally together with Jiu Shu once again.
This time, there would be no one to hinder them.
Never again.
Seeing that Zero Three was indeed in high spirits, Jiu Shu finally relaxed.
Then his gaze swept past the corridor behind Zero Three without a trace.
That was the source of the blo-od.
The hobbling footsteps just now seemed to have disappeared there as well.
“Those are all the blo-od of the rebels.”
Zero Three said, hugging Jiu Shu.
“Let’s go back later; I’ll make lunch quickly.”
So let’s get out of here and go back to where it’s just the two of them.
“……”
Jiu Shu was held completely in his arms, his toes slightly off the ground.
Feeling the careful strength of Zero Three’s embrace, he sighed and withdrew his gaze.
Never mind, as long as the object of discipline was fine.
“Okay.”
Let’s go home together.
*
At this point, the program team had long been in a state of chaos.
With Jiu Shu’s sudden departure, the camera didn’t have time to follow him.
After losing the view about him, the live broadcast room was also in chaos.
Everyone was discussing Jiu Shu.
They didn’t know why he suddenly left and went in the direction the Resistance had left.
It was almost as if he wanted to die.
Many speculated that he was a saintly mother to the core and was going to probate the resistance.
Lian Qi was also a bit distracted, even wanting to send a message to the resistance not to hurt Jiu Shu.
Even though she didn’t know this underground idol well, she didn’t want anything to happen to him.
After all, he looked really quite good with a mask on.
And in the face of the situation at hand, the male singer who had been completely ignored by Jiu Shu had the guts to follow him, looking for signs of him.
Cameras followed him, earning him a lot of popularity.
But the male singer wasn’t just thinking about earning popularity; he was also thinking about a heroic rescue.
However, the rotten building had corridor after corridor, and there were countless corridors even to the same floor, so it was easy to get lost.
The male singer then managed to get lost.
Not only did he fail to find Jiu Shu, he also lost the crowd of the program team behind him.
The male singer got a little anxious; he looked at the camera and tried to ask the audience in front of the camera for help.
Instead, all he got was a push from the audience.
Urging him to hurry up, they wanted to see what happened to that mask killer, Jiu Shu.
Having no choice, the male singer could only continue on.
He reached a corridor dripping with blo-od.
[Aren’t all these people the resistance just now?]
[Why are you resting against the wall? Zoom in!]
[Are they dead? It seems like they’re still breathing; is all this bl-ood theirs?]
The comments in the live broadcast room increased.
The male singer fearfully walked inside the corridor, not knowing what exactly happened here, only vaguely judging it to be a terrible battle.
The fight between the Bionic people was pretty bl-oody.
Not at all as life-sparing as the humans.
The helmeted rebels on the ground all seemed to be breathing; they were just leaning against the wall without moving for some reason.
After walking for a while, it wasn’t until he was about to round the corner to the next level that the male singer saw a different bionic.
It was a battered bionic man in a police uniform.
One could only hear him mumbling something under his breath.
“Zero three… he deceived you…”
No one could hear what he was saying, he suddenly shuddered in the next moment, a look of fear solidifying on his face.
“Zero three…!”
Before the words were finished, the expression on the bionic man’s face turned hollow and lifeless.
The pitch-black eyes trembled and looked towards the male singer not far away.
The dead, lightless eyes made one’s heart instantly chill.
Even more terrifyingly, at the very same time, the Resistance soldiers in the corridor who had originally hung their heads dumbly also looked over sideways.
On the helmets where their faces could not be seen, the two scanning cameras emitted a bizarre red light.
“!!!”
The male singer almost fainted at the bizarre scene and ran out of the corridor.
When he gathered the courage to look back, he realized that the bionic people were still looking at him sideways, puppet-like and stiff.
It was as if they were cursing him spitefully.
The camera seemed to have malfunctioned just now as well, and it didn’t even record the scene of those bionic people scaring the hell out of him just now.
This made the male singer even more frightened.
Not caring much, he ran towards the stairs.
During this time, he fell down the stairs, and his nose and face were almost impossible to look at.
However, the live broadcast room was suddenly swept with many comments.
It was almost explosive.
The male singer huffed in pain and thought that it was his ugly appearance that had excited the netizens.
But, he looked up and saw that the comments in the live broadcast room were all asking him to move forward a little bit more so that the camera could focus in the direction of a floor not far away.
The male singer was unsure.
However, he still complied and pointed the camera in flight at a place two or three floors away from him.
Only then did he see two figures appear in the camera.
One figure was tall and unfamiliar, while the other was exceptionally familiar, and it was none other than Jiu Shu, whom he couldn’t find anywhere.
“Jiu Shu?”
The male singer took a closer look and instantly understood the reason for the excitement in the broadcast room.
It was only a back view, but you could see that Jiu Shu had removed his mask.
And the tall man standing beside him seemed to be his lover.
Jiu Shu’s demeanor by his lover’s side was much gentler than before.
[I can’t believe he actually has a lover. I threw up.]
[There are people who love even this ugly bas-tard. Since you’ve taken off the mask, why don’t you show your face? This program’s arrangement is too old-fashioned, right?]
[It doesn’t seem to be an arrangement. It’s rumored that there was really a resistance, but they were defeated; he’s not injured, is he?]
[Didn’t he sympathize with the bionics and follow them? He deserves to die!]
[Who cares? Zoom in and let me see how ugly that guy really is.]
The male singer was also curious, but the camera was already zoomed in.
He couldn’t do anything about the fact that Jiu Shu wouldn’t turn around.
But then, as if he sensed something, Jiu Shu raised his eyes in the direction of the camera.
His face, which wasn’t covered by a mask, was completely reflected in the camera.
The text that was still scrolling in the live broadcast room disappeared in a flash.
No one sent out any more comments; even the male singer’s throat was dry, and he couldn’t make a single sound.
Although he had long predicted that the face under Jiu Shu’s mask would definitely not be unsightly, he had not expected the sense of visual impact to be so strong when he witnessed it with his own eyes.
Especially that pair of beautiful peach blossom-like eyes, they glittered like jewels, making people unable to move their eyes.
Compared to the extravagant and dark showbiz makeup of these years, this kind of immaculate feeling was exceptionally rare.
Or rather, it was that naturalness that had never been artificially adjusted that was appealing.
The male singer thought of this and looked at the live broadcast room.
He found that those comments inside that were still posting ugly words were all gone, replaced by some twisted remarks.
[He seems quite good-looking.]
[Who photoshopped the ID photo? Is it fun to slander a great beauty?]
[Is he going to be a star? Hurry up and release the album; I’ll buy it!]
[I announce that I’m going to pursue him. I’m the manager of the Lost Paradise Group in the Fifth Metropolis. I’m sure I can make him happy.]
[He must have been touched by quite a few people for being so good-looking; he’s from the lower city after all! And he cares so much about the bionics. He’s polluted by the poor people of the lower city.]
[Don’t say such disgusting things! He’s got to be good-looking and good-hearted! He cares about the Bionics because he’s kind!]
The live broadcasting room was getting even more noisy.
The atmosphere of the original one-sided insults changed, and some people began to speak up for Jiu Shu.
They even began to think that bionics were indeed pitiful and needed human care, and that what Jiu Shu did wasn’t wrong.
Humans in today’s society always valued skin, and with a good set of skin, even the once most hated comments could be agreed upon.
But such a chaotic live room only lasted for a short period of time.
The male singer saw the tall man at Jiu Shu’s side sidle over to look at him, and his pitch-black pupils made the male singer instantly fall into an ice cellar.
Inexplicably, he thought it was similar to the eyes of the bionic people he just saw.
Gloomy and morbid.
Full of malice towards others.
Zip-
And for some reason, the very moment the man looked over, the live stream malfunctioned.
One by one, the viewers stopped posting comments.
They disappeared from the live broadcast room.
In the end, even the live room screen distorted and went completely black.
Seeing this, the male singer didn’t dare to look at Jiu Shu anymore and remained frozen, swallowing his saliva.
By the time he looked over again, Jiu Shu’s figure had long since disappeared.
Like a fragile dream, he was gone.
The male singer became somewhat frustrated.
At this time, the program’s crew, who were searching everywhere for the missing male singer and Jiu Shu, were also in a state of anxiety.
A starlet had already died, so they couldn’t afford to have another accident right now.
Otherwise, the program would be shut down in minutes.
Lian Qi walked at the end of the line and suddenly realized that she hadn’t paid attention to the news just now.
Her boyfriend Cory had broken the mold and sent her a message.
It was important to know that lately, in order to prevent signals from being captured by the government side, they rarely contacted each other through cell phones.
There was no telling what the sudden contact was for today.
Lian Qi opened her cell phone and saw a short message from her boyfriend.
[Adam is awake and is in the building, on the nineth floor; leave quickly!]
Lian Qi was stunned, then asked for details.
She was also aware of Adam’s current situation and understood that the current Adam was most likely awakened in some bionic human.
She didn’t know if the Resistance side already knew the specific information of that bionic person.
If she could know, she could also take some precautions.
[Each one.]
Cory quickly sent a message.
Just as Lian Qi was a bit confused, Cory continued, [Be wary of every bionic human you encounter.]
[As well as… humans.]
This AI disaster had already begun.
Neither humans nor bionics could escape.
*
Jiu Shu and Zero Three returned home.
Zero Three was already cooking.
In order to prevent Jiu Shu from getting hungry, he also made some predinner desserts first.
“It’s delicious!”
Jiu Shu ate a plate of cupcakes and revealed a happy smile.
Zero Three was tying his apron, and when he saw this, a wider smile appeared on his always stoic face.
“It’ll be ready in a moment; please wait.”
He was still annoyed about his lateness, and fearing that Jiu Shu would be anxious to wait, he sped up his cooking.
Jiu Shu sat on the side with his cheeks resting on his palm, watching him.
His eyes were out of focus for a moment before he suddenly looked out the window.
Due to the angle, the blurred silhouettes of buildings in the far upper city could be seen from this apartment building.
The towering buildings and the various light rail trains that ran through them were non-stop every day.
Today, however, it had become unusually quiet.
So quiet that it almost seemed abandoned.
It was as if the bionics that were supposed to be all over Uptown, working day and night for the humans, had suddenly disappeared along with the humans.
Combined with the uncharacteristic silence of the lower city during the daytime, it even gave Jiu Shu the illusion that the entire city was left with only their one tall building.
“Okay, I don’t know if you’ll like it…”
Zero Three served a table full of food and looked at Jiu Shu with an extraordinarily gentle gaze.
He expected Jiu Shu to like the food he made.
Jiu Shu withdrew his gaze and arched his eyebrows after tasting the food, revealing an extraordinarily bright and beautiful smile as Zero Three had wished.
Zero Three’s pale face had a little more redness on it, and the bottom of his eyes were insatiable as he watched the smile on Jiu Shu’s face with fascination, unable to get enough of it.
This was what he wanted.
Just the two of them, him and Jiu Shu, to live happily ever after like this.
Forever.
Jiu Shu looked at the expression on Zero Three’s face, and as if he had read his mind, he kissed his cheek.
His voice was warm and soft. “I really want to live with you like this forever.”
Zero Three froze, his thin lips hooked up, revealing an uncontainable look of happiness.
“Okay, forever.”
Zero Three hugged Jiu Shu tightly.
Jiu Shu nestled in the broad and sturdy embrace of Zero Three, with his muscles pressing down on his cheeks, it made his skin seem even softer.
He couldn’t help but lose his smile somewhat helplessly.
However, Jiu Shu didn’t say anything; but his gaze calmly looked towards the system panel that the object of discipline couldn’t see.
The coordinates of Zero Three’s location were displayed on it.
A bright red dot covered the apartment building.
And as the viewpoint was pulled away, more and more small, thin red dots appeared in the panel as well.
It was densely packed.
From the lower city to the upper city, it covered the entire Seventh Metropolis.
The once prosperous future city was now like a lair, completely occupied by monsters.
TN:
Happy new monthhhhhh
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